I walked in to the tourist office, I thought, and was surprised they had no maps, or information about walks in the area, so I pulled out a book of walks that were in the book I mentioned in Day 1’s post. They were impressed, so I asked if I could go through these walks with them. I was still concerned at their apparent disinterest in me or my topic, however, she did know of the 15 walks I showed her. 

After 15 minutes, I thanked her, and asked if she wanted a copy as a resource. She politely declined. I was curious how they just sat there, one of the women told me she knew nothing about these walks, while she was very impressed with her friend. I walked out only a little more knowledgeable, but quite confused at their behaviour.

The next day we drove to our walk start and managed quite easily with the 11km circuit up and down many hundreds of cliff stairs. The rain stopped well before we got there leaving us with a moderate summer like day. It’s lovely to walk beside an ocean, the clear reflections of greens and blues delighting us with their rocky home below. Above were rusty rocks spreading out 50 metres into the sea.

These rocks were believed to be the remains of a long gone Ice age so lots of geological history here. The 150 step sugarloaf mountain showed evidence of material going back 600 million years, and we thought, ‘we were getting old’. Recently I met a rock climber, so I couldn’t help myself as I looked for weak sandstone and strong ironstone wondering how he would go climbing these cliffs?

On return, I reached my now daily 20km goal. Soon after, I visited the information office once more, and asked another woman who also knew nothing about the walks. But she did help me, by getting the information office next door that had just closed, to open. The information office I had now visited twice, was the art gallery. I should have got the full picture the first time.